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The Farmers Milling Company was a flour mill established in 1918<ref name=":0">[https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Miller_and_Processor/dctFAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=millhousen&pg=PA609&printsec=frontcover American Miller and Processor] issued July 1, 1918.</ref> on town lot #28.
The Farmers Milling Company was a flour mill established in 1918<ref name=":0">[https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Miller_and_Processor/dctFAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=millhousen&pg=PA609&printsec=frontcover American Miller and Processor] issued July 1, 1918.</ref> on town lot #28.
[[File:Farmers Milling Company.png|thumb|412x412px|Undated Photo of the Farmers Milling Company<ref name=":1">[https://attic.flexstart.me/dusty-box/the-story-of-millhousen.pdf The Story of Millhousen] (1984), p. 20</ref>]]
[[File:Farmers Milling Company.png|thumb|412x412px|Undated Photo of the Farmers Milling Company<ref name=":1">[https://attic.flexstart.me/dusty-box/the-story-of-millhousen.pdf The Story of Millhousen] (1984), p. 20</ref>]]

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The Farmers Milling Company was a flour mill established in 1918[1] on town lot #28.

Undated Photo of the Farmers Milling Company[2]


The mill's first directors included Bernard W. Zapfe, George M. Scheidler, Anthony Meyer, Bernard Hoeing, John H. Wheeldon, Frank Klosterkemper, and George Fry. $7000 was raised in capital stock for its founding.[1]

Made in Millhousen, High Patent Flour, Farmers Milling Company, Milhousen, Ind.
24 lb. flour sack from the mill, now on display at Stone's


The mill would later be known as Smith Bros. Feed Mill after being purchased by Alvin Smith.[2] It was demolished in 2019 and is now a parking lot for the Knights of St. John Hall.

  1. 1.0 1.1 American Miller and Processor issued July 1, 1918.
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Story of Millhousen (1984), p. 20